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8:55 PM ET, June 16, 2007

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Khaled Abu Toameh / Jerusalem Post:
Looters raid Arafat's home, steal his Nobel Peace Prize  —  Enraged Fatah leaders on Saturday accused Hamas militiamen of looting the home of former Palestinian Authority chairman Yasser Arafat in Gaza City.  —  "They stole almost everything inside the house, including Arafat's Nobel Peace Prize medal …
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Little Green Footballs:
Palestinians Flee to Israel  —  According to the international left and the paleo-right, Israel is a fascist apartheid state, a brutal occupier, universally despised by the oppressed Palestinian people.  —  So where do the oppressed Palestinians look for sanctuary, when the terrorist government …
Discussion: NewsBusters.org and Dean's World
Opinion Journal:
Arafat's Children  —  Gaza's mayhem is the bitter fruit of terror as statecraft.  —  Scores of Palestinians were killed this week in Gaza in factional fighting between loyalists of President Mahmoud Abbas of Fatah and those of Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh of Hamas.
Carl / Israel Matzav:   How much for a Nobel Peace Prize medal on E-Bay?
Noel Sheppard / NewsBusters.org:   Will Media Report Palestinians Fleeing Gaza For Israel?
Haaretz:   An overpowering reality  —  By Aluf Benn ?  (Jerusalem?) and Shmuel Rosner ?
Duff Wilson / New York Times:
Prosecutor in Duke Case Is Disbarred for Ethics Breaches  —  In a case that has brought one surprise after another, a disciplinary hearing panel found Michael B. Nifong, the Durham County district attorney, guilty today of ethical violations while pressing a false accusation of sexual assault …
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Dan Hart / Bloomberg:
Duke Prosecutor Nifong Disbarred in Ethics Case (Update1)  —  Durham County District Attorney Mike Nifong was disbarred by the North Carolina State Bar for breaking rules of professional conduct while handling rape allegations against Duke University lacrosse players.
ABCNEWS:
N.C. State Bar: Nifong Guilty of Ethics Violations  —  Panel Reaches Verdict as Exonerated Duke Players Watch  —  Durham County District Attorney Mike Nifong has been found guilty by the North Carolina State Bar for a battery of ethics violations in the Duke Lacrosse case.
KC Johnson / Durham-in-Wonderland:   Verdict  —  Committee is unanimous on all issues on all the contested issues in the case.
KC Johnson / Durham-in-Wonderland:   Findings
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Daniel Pulliam / Tech Insider:
Agencies Asked to Preserve Electronic Info
Discussion: The Next Hurrah
Fox News:
Hispanic Leaders Blast Schwarzenegger's Advice to Turn Off Spanish TV  —  Some Hispanic leaders lashed out Friday at California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's advice that immigrants should "turn off the Spanish television set" to better learn how to speak English.
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National Review:
Immigration Update  —  From a knowledgeable Senate source:
Discussion: Hot Air and Macsmind
Cernig / The Newshoggers:
Judy In Drag Strikes Again  —  Today, David "Judy Miller in Drag" Sanger has another of his stenography pieces at the New York Times, which purports to be about the diplomacy-or-bombs debate in White House circles on what to do about Iran's nuclear program.  Somehow, though …
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Emily Wax / Washington Post:
A Sacred River Left in Peril by Global Warming  —  VARANASI, India — With her eyes sealed, Ramedi cupped the murky water of the Ganges River in her hands, lifted them toward the sun, and prayed for her husband, her 15 grandchildren and her bad hip.  She, like India's other 800 million Hindus …
Steve Fainaru / Washington Post:
Iraq Contractors Face Growing Parallel War  —  As Security Work Increases, So Do Casualties  —  BAGHDAD — Private security companies, funded by billions of dollars in U.S. military and State Department contracts, are fighting insurgents on a widening scale in Iraq, enduring daily attacks …
Jose Antonio Vargas / Washington Post:
An Also-Ran in the GOP Polls, Ron Paul Is Huge on the Web  —  On Technorati, which offers a real-time glimpse of the blogosphere, the most frequently searched term this week was "YouTube."  —  Then comes "Ron Paul."  —  The presence of the obscure Republican congressman from Texas on a list …
Ban Ki Moon / Washington Post:
A Climate Culprit In Darfur  —  Just over a week ago, leaders of the world's industrialized nations met in Heiligendamm, Germany, for their annual summit.  Our modest goal: to win a breakthrough on climate change.  And we got it — an agreement to cut greenhouse gases by 50 percent before 2050.
Discussion: Daimnation! and Corrente
John Timmer / Ars Technica:
Inability to meet "grand challenges" of physics likely to hurt US competitiveness  —  The National Academies of Science produces regular reports on the state of scientific research in the US.  Their latest effort along these lines has just been released, and the academy has put the spotlight …
Discussion: Instapundit.com
 
 
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Sheldon Alberts / canada.com:
McCain's run for presidential candidacy in trouble, experts say
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Ayatollah Dies in Tehran and in London, at the same time
Glenn Reynolds / Instapundit.com:
BACK WHEN WE INTERVIEWED RNC CHAIR KEN MEHLMAN LAST YEAR …
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Hindrocket / Power Line:
KUMBAYA  —  Palestinian children on the West Bank have been …
Robert Burns / Associated Press:
Mail sent to Walter Reed never delivered
ABCNEWS:
Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and the Black Vote
Sean Guillory / Sean's Russia Blog:
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Lieberman Smacks Harry Reid, Again
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Kevin Drum / Washington Monthly:
CATO....You know, I keep hearing that unlike, say, the Heritage …
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New York Times:
Some Buyers Grow Web-Weary, and Online Sales Lose Steam
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Jeremy Pelofsky / Reuters:
Bush blasts Democrats over budget spending
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Politics / Washington Post:
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